3 listed buildings, 3 of them in the second category

Mossend, Calder Road and Hope Street, Holy Family Roman Catholic Church with Presbytery and Church HallCategory B listed

Photos from Wikimedia Commons and Geograph, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the building’s page or its official list entry.

c. 1900

Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.

Historic Environment Scotland lists buildings in three categories: Category A for buildings of national or international importance (about 7.5% of listed buildings), Category B for buildings of regional importance (about 50%), and Category C for buildings of local importance (about 43%). Listing protects the whole building, inside and out.

Every entry on Historic Environment Scotland’s designations whose point lies inside the NRS 2022 locality boundary. One list entry can cover a terrace or a group of buildings.

Henry Dyer

William Niven

Tom Paterson Neilson

John Curran

Dave Buchanan

Amy Sanderson

James Reid

Jimmy Drummond

Willie Cameron

Robert Buchanan

Johnny Jaap

James Cleland Richardson

James McCourt

Billy Moffatt

William Devlin

James Hill

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Henry Dyer1848–1918 · British engineer (1848–1918)

William Niven1850–1937 · Mineralogist and archeologist (1850-1937)

AS

Amy Sanderson1876–1931 · Scottish suffragette

JJ

Johnny Jaap1895–1974 · American soccer player (1895-1974)

WD

William Devlin1899– · Scottish footballer (1899-?)

DB

Dave Buchanan1873–1950 · Scottish footballer (1873-1950)

James Cleland Richardson1895–1916 · Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross (1895–1916)

JH

James Hill1899–1966 · Scottish Labour politician (1899-1966)

Everyone born in Bellshill → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.

Bellshill has 3 listed buildings, including Bellshill, Main Street, Bellshill West Church Including Boundary Walls and Piers. Of the 16 people born here before 1900, the best known include Henry Dyer (1848), William Niven (1850) and Amy Sanderson (1876). Most towns its size have more Category A buildings: the typical one has 2. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: the list grew between 1992 and 2017.